Why did Juhi Chawla reach the court on 5G, what is the concern?
Bollywood actress Juhi Chawla has reached Delhi High Court against 5G technology.
Juhi Chawla, along with two other petitioners, Viresh Malik and Tina Vachhani, in a petition have asked the court to order government agencies to investigate and find out how safe 5G is for health.
The petitioners demand that no private company, person should have any influence on this investigation.
Several government agencies such as the Department of Communications, the Science and Engineering Research Board, the Indian Council of Medical Research, the Central Pollution Control Board, some universities and the World Health Organization have been made parties in the nearly 5,000-page petition.
Juhi Chawla, Viresh Malik and Tina Vachhani’s lawyer Deepak Khosla said, “There are serious risks with such technology. We request that 5G be stopped until the government confirms that there is no danger with this technology. “
The petition is to be heard on Wednesday. Juhi Chawla could not be spoken to on this petition. He is currently out of India in the city of Cape Town.
Anxiety started 10 years ago
Juhi Chawla’s concern about mobile tower radiation is 10 years old.
According to a 2011 report, Juhi Chawla, a resident of Malabar Hill, was concerned about the health effects of 16 mobile phone towers installed at the Sahyadri Guest House, 40 meters from her home, and when a professor at IIT Mumbai investigated her. found that a large part of their house was allegedly ‘unsafe’.
In a presentation on YouTube, Juhi Chawla is seen explaining how she was concerned about so many phone towers and thought of checking the radiation levels around her house. And when he saw the investigation report, his concern increased.
5G cellular network is already working in many parts of the world such as America, Europe, China and South Korea. Work is going on in India also on 5G trials.
5G makes the internet speed very fast and is considered revolutionary, as it will help in further development of technology like telesurgery, artificial intelligence, driverless car.
But there is also concern in many parts of the world that 5G infrastructure increases radiation exposure, which can lead to diseases like cancer.
Remember that last year 5G towers in Britain were set on fire after rumors spread that 5G towers were the cause of the spread or rapid spread of the corona virus.
Such rumors were spread in India too, after which the government had to clarify.
What does the petition say?
The petition mentions the potential dangers posed by 5G.
It refers to Belgium, where there has been opposition to 5G.
The petition refers to a statement from Belgium’s Environment Minister Celine Freman in 2019, in which she said, “I cannot welcome technology that does not respect the radiation standards that protect citizens, be it 5G.” Or not. The people of Brussels are not guinea pigs whose health we sell for a profit.”
The petition claims that while cellular companies are setting up cell towers at an alarming rate to improve connectivity, there are more than 5,000 scientific studies purportedly showing that people have died in this battle between network providers. are being victimized.
The petition says that if the 5G plan of the telecommunications industry becomes successful, then no person, no animal, no bird and no leaf will be able to escape from the radiation produced every moment by radio frequency radiation and the level of this radiation is at present level. 10 to 100 times more.
Why is 5G different?
Like other cellular technologies, 5G networks rely on signals mounted on radio waves that are transmitted between the antenna and the phone.
Whether it is a TV signal or a radio signal, electromagnetic radiation is all around us.
5G technology uses higher frequency waves than older mobile networks, providing simultaneous Internet access to more mobiles and faster Internet speeds.
5G networks require more transmitters, which are closer to the ground, than the older technology.
International reports on the dangers of 5G
In the year 2014, the World Health Organization said that till date there has been no adverse effect on health from the use of mobile phones.
But this report also says that the International Agency for Research has considered the electromagnetizing fields generated by mobile phones to be potentially carcinogenic to humans.
According to another report by the World Health Organization, this is because there is no strong evidence yet about whether the electromagnetizing fields generated by mobile phones can definitely cause cancer in humans.
A 2018 US government report found that excessive exposure to radio frequency radiation caused a type of cancer-like tumor in the heart of mice.
For this research, the whole body of the rat was exposed to the radiation of the mobile phone for two years and these rats were exposed for nine hours every day.
A scientist doing research wrote that the radiation of mobile phones that these mice endured is far from the experience of any human, so this research should not affect your life.
On whether mobile phones are a health hazard, the US Food and Drug Administration’s report says, so far, there is no evidence that it poses a risk of cancer in humans.
According to a report by the World Health Organization for the year 2020, it will publish a report in 2022 on the health hazards caused by exposure to all radio frequencies, including 5G.
In the year 2019, many Indian scientists also wrote a letter to the government against 5G.
Should we worry about a 5G transmitter?
In 2019, the BBC Reality Check team found that 5G technology requires many new base stations to send or receive mobile signals.
But more transmitters means they can run on less power than 4G technology, which means that the level of radiation emitted by a 5G antenna is lower.
As for the heat generated by radiation, Professor Rodney Croft of the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection told the Reality Check team that the heat emitted at 5G levels is not harmful.
He says, “If a person in the community would have been exposed to the highest radio frequency from 5G, then it would be so low that it has not been found to raise the temperature till date.”
